Reading 1 – Numbers 22:1-4
Reading 2 – Numbers 22:5-13
Reading 3 – Numbers 22:15-19
Numbers 22:20
Reading 4 – Doctrine and Covenants 3:4
Jacob 4:10
Reading 5 – 2 Peter 2:13-16
President Spencer W. Kimball wrote: "It is extremely difficult, if not
impossible, for the devil to enter a door that is closed. He seems to have no
keys for locked doors. But if a door is slightly ajar, he gets his toe in, and
soon this is followed by his foot, then by his leg and his body and his head,
and finally he is in all the way." (Miracle of Forgiveness, p215)
Reading 6 - Elder Bruce R. McConkie wrote: "I wonder
how often some of us get our direction from the Church and then, Balaam-like,
plead for some worldly rewards and finally receive an answer which says, in
effect, If you are determined to be a millionaire or to gain this or that
worldly honor, go ahead, with the understanding that you will continue to serve
the Lord. Then we wonder why things don't work out for us as well as they would
have done if we had put first in our lives the things of God's kingdom?"
("The Story of a Prophet's Madness," New Era, Apr. 1972, p. 7)
Numbers 22:22-23
Numbers 22:27-30
Numbers 22:38
Numbers 23:23
Reading 7 – Numbers 24:10-11
Numbers 31:7-8
Revelations 2:14
Elder Bruce R. McConkie wrote that the doctrine of Balaam is
"To divine for hire; to give counsel contrary to the divine will; to
pervert the right way of the Lord -- all with a view to gaining wealth and the
honors of men. In effect, to preach for money, or to gain personal power and
influence. In the very nature of things such a course is a perversion of the
right way of the Lord" (Doctrinal New Testament Commentary:
Colossians-Revelation, [Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1973] p. 451).
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